SIGN LANGUAGE: A Yankee fan sends a message to Pedro Martinez, who took the loss in the Yankees’ 3-1 win over the Phillies last night in Game 2 of the World Series. Photo: Charles Wenzelberg

In the bleachers, memories are longer than even the throw-backs of opposition home runs.

Last night, Anthony Marsal, a student from Elizabeth, N.J., said his fondest recollection of his first Yankees game ever was someone making a 6-year-old girl in an Angels cap cry following a Darin Erstad error.

If only Brian Cashman had those kind of recall powers after the Kevin Brown deal. And now it turns out Pedro Martinez not only has rabbit ears, admonishing a first-row fan last night at one point for using foul language around his daughter, but also remembers more than elephants.

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As we learned at Wednesday’s press conference, the self-described “most influential player” at Yankee Stadium has, in his old age, become almost as adept at holding runners as holding a grudge.

“One of your colleagues [once] had me in the papers with red horns and a tail, a sign of the devil,” said Martinez. “I’m a Christian man, I don’t like those things.

“Those are things that sometimes influence people to believe you are a bad person, like an ogre.”

Of course, to such media lyrics, Pedro sometimes added 98-mile-an-hour background chin music, expressing the wish to have been born soon enough to hit Babe Ruth in the butt and throwing 72-year-old Don Zimmer to the ground, albeit in self-defense, although to Yankees fans there was no defense.

“He was a disgrace, what he did to Zimmer,” said Jamie Alvarez, 44-year-old funeral director from Oradell, N.J. Working up a Pedro froth in the right-field bleachers more two hours before game time, the mortician didn’t exactly say he wished to have Pedro’s business, but . . .

“He tells a different story than everyone saw on TV, he attacked an old man for no reason,” said Alvarez, who swore he bought his $490 tickets on StubHub before the Yankees lost the opener.

“He talks a lot of nonsense, goes on about things that don’t pertain to the baseball field, about being a religious person and the media picking on him.

“Zimmer came at him, but as a young man with agility you can weave, right? He actually grabbed and threw him. Zimmer was wrong, too, but two wrongs don’t make a right.”

Just what Yankees fans said when Martinez left the Red Sox for the Mets.

“Pedro was evil, Boston Red Sox evil, he epitomized that,” said Alvarez. “That’s the No. 1 enemy and then he went to the Mets and became more despicable.”

Given that the alternative was Oliver Perez, Mets fans wish Pedro still played for New York, and as he mesmerized last night with his brainy junk, on the whole Yankees fans weren’t any happier to see him in Philly.

“Needing this game makes me want to kill him even more,” said Brian DeStefano, a contractor from New Jersey. “Actually I hate Kevin Youkilis even more for the way he kills us. But I don’t think I’m in the majority.”